I guess the last few weeks or so Bob & I have been bringing out the "A" game(& then some!!) out of our opponents!! That 75 last Thurs. was just positively SICK!! People afterward were asking me what THREE holes that night they DIDN'T birdie, & hell, I couldn't remember, it sure seemed like they got ALL OF THEM!!

That has always been the competitive draw to this league. It's not so much that the holes are hard to birdie, becasue they are not. However, at other courses if you both miss a makable putt and leave a birdie on the course, you may or may not be giving up a stroke to your competition. It's easy to shake it off. At White Birch when you leave a birdie on the course you KNOW you gave up a stroke to your competition. You have to get it back mentally fast becasue if you let it get in your head and mess up the next hole you gave up TWO stokes. I could name several really good local players who lost White Birch leagues on the last night by letting a bad shot linger in their head and instead of giving up one stroke they gave up two or three. On other courses you might get a chance to make that up. Not at White Birch. That's the pressure of this league. If you miss the harder birdie holes (2,16,18) you can miss one other hole and stay in the hunt.

So when guys say they don't see the challenge of playing White Birch, they just don't appreciate that. It's not that the holes are that hard to birdie, it the fact that you HAVE to birdie them, every week.